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Unemployment rate rises AGAIN to 5.1% as Rachel Reeves struggles with ‘strain in the UK economy’

by 16/12/2025
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Unemployment in the UK increased to 5.1 per cent in the three months to October 2025, up from five per cent in September, according to the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.

While these figures come before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on November 26, they come as another blow to the Treasury as the Labour Government attempts to bolster the economy.

As well as this, UK average regular earnings growth slipped to 4.6 per cent in the three months to October and was 0.9 per cent higher factoring in the consumer prices index CPI inflation.

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